Re: [IMPORTANT] Disaster Preperations!
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 08:20:30AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > The only thing more than this which is truly important IMO is a list
> > of installed packages (dpkg --get-selections > some/file) and /home if
> > you can back that up now and then. From there, you can pretty much
> > recover a system nicely even if you have to erase everything and start
> > over for some reason.
>
> unfortunately, 'dpkg --get-selections' isn't as useful as it could be.
> it only lists the packages selected for install, and not those which
> have been removed or purged. [...]
Please, try:
dpkg --get-selections "*"
It works for me.
Thanks.
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